Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Still Tippin' On Four:Fours

• Odyssey's got some tall-ass four-piece bars dropping that look sort of like Redline Forklifters without the number-plate tabs (or just the more recent versions) or Fred'z Bars without Fred. I'd embed the code so you didn't have to click the link, but the last time I did that it messed up the whole column aspect of the blog. I'm not blaming Odyssey—there must be a way I could adjust the width or the scale—I just don't know what I'm doing. I'd think these are what would have been the Lumb4rjacks (or was it Lumberj4cks?), and whilst I'm inclined to sigh at yet another pair of bars thrown into the mix, it's hard to not love 'em after seeing this photo:

That said, I'll stick with my Bobs.

• Whilst yesterday's post drew plenty of comments, nothing was really cleared up one way or the other. Meanwhile, Fit themselves took the Flavor Flav route. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

• I want to believe. But correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that a 'new' Lengthy? And wasn't the Domination bike a regular STA? (As for actually buying it, who do you think you are, Rick Moliterno???) UPDATE: 'Tis apparently 100 percent legit. Must... fight... impulses...

I rode the local Scott rep's Addict with R-Sys wheels for a day, and the whole set-up freaked me out. I don't like plastic bikes or bike parts that much, and once the rig has a retail value of almost ten grand, it makes me pretty nervous when I'm responsible for the damn thing for a night.

Once my need for more beer and cigarettes from the local grocery store overwhelmed any such qualms, I realized that at least the fucking bike wasn't chrome--the teenage gangbangers lurking by the dumpsters didn't look twice at it.

It took me just over twenty minutes to ride the twelve miles to work the next morning. If I owned something like that and rode it on a regular basis, I'd be dead long before any catastrophic equipment failure issues would have materialized.

George designed those monstrosities, I saw a video of it along with his other Frankenstein-ish creations (gynormous-sport hubs, (ugly)director forks, twombolt(twombreaks), etc, all SOOOO extremely overhyped while solving non-existing problems so kids can hang off his testicles.

Profile > Odyssey/G-Sport

George, I'm glad you are off Bikeguide and not coming back again. Good riddance!!!!!

so... "you are not the width, shape, color or HEIGHT of your handlebars..."

seems fit has had some unexpected setbacks especially considering Aiken's injury, etc. But, maybe just maybe, this is the normal course of events for the Fit-side project. Makes you wonder if they ever expected it to get so big, so fast, and maintain for so long - better to go out on top, like Josh White or Warren Marchessy...

George had nothing to do with these bars. You'll have to fuel your burning fire of obsession elsewhere.

We made these bars for our friends that wanted a four-piece bar based on the Lumberjack's geometry (with upsweep, which ads to the height slightly). The "look" is obviously derivative of Forklifters and the original Hoffman Bars. As far as traditional handlebar aesthetics are concerned, I've always thought Forklifters were on the list along side Slams, Kneesavers and Castillo Bars. Maybe our list is different than yours. Why does it even matter?

If you don't like these bars, then simply ride something else. There's a seemingly endless supply to choose from at this point. The original people that we made them for are happy.

Fit is done. It's getting shut down relatively soon, which is why they are making such a big deal about stay fit, it's one last big thing before fit is gone forever. Too bad mikey won't have that many clips. I wonder what's gonna be the new "scene" without fit around

That frame was indeed the frame that he rode in domination. In mid 98 when Moliterno got the sample STA (black camo frame) with the new style dropout he sent the Domination frame back to Waterford for repair and new paint. When the frame was sent back with new paint, chainstays (since he had ground through the other ones) Waterford put the new Lengthy style dropouts on it to try out. If I do remember correctly he intended to ride the frame again but it ended up collecting dust in the storeroom at the Standard office.

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